Letting a Saints fan ref Saints, and any hometown referee officiate in a game involving their hometown is a farce. It is one of the many stupid decisions made by the RFL which makes our sport a laughing stock and keeps us as a minority sport.

hmm sounds like you think I'm trying to use the fact Ganson is a known St Helens fan as a reason.

Wrong I just question the fact any ref who is a supporter or has any ties is allowed too ref teams they have some connection too, the fact the RFL has not done what many other sports have done and made it a rule that refs cannot ref games they have ties with is another reason they are an joke.

what I'm saying has nothing to do with what happened today as personally think Ganson is a joke anyway he always finds someway too make himself the of attention whenever he appears on live tv games.

Agree with this - the thing is that Ganson, Silverwood and Bentham are commonly associated with teams and are also the more prominent refs therefore end up with their 'home' teams frequently for televised ties. We need more refs and ones that are better......

Hull FC v Saint Helens

Referee: Mr Steve Ganson (Saint Helens)

So a referee from the home town he is actually refereeing and HIS family hold SEASON PASSES from Saint Helens....

CREDIBILITY = ZERO

RFL you really are a fckuing joke.

Or turned around the other way we were regularly told by many on here, possibly even yourself, that injuries cannot be used as an excuse.

whether you blame the ref or not ,the point is Ganson should not referee any match involving St Helens ,full stop ,its as simple as that ,not rocket science is it

Everyone is forgetting the penalty given against Sharp in the first half when all he did was run back to field a down field kick.

Steve Ganson is not a self confessed saints fan. It is known he is a wigan supporter and doesn't like Saints, his ex wife is a saints though. The decision was correct, Washbrook was not looking at the ball, he was looking at the man jumping.If he had turn his head to see the ball coming, he would have been deemed jumping for it, but, he never once looked at the direction of the ball. Correct decision.

Try watching it again like I have done. His eyes were always on the ball.

And Ganson is a St Helens fan, Thats why up until a couple of season ago he wasn't allowed too ref any saints finals

Are you for real? His eyes never left the ball. Your either a moron or a WUM, either way take my advice and do one.

Didn't he once admit that as a child he was a member of the Junior Saints supporters club?

Yes but don't tell the saint's fans that